Offbeat | Dog spooked by sealion is rescued from remote Pacific island

Things first started to go wrong for Flint the rat-sniffing dog when a sealion charged at him. It emerged from the scrub, lurching and bellowing, full of aggression. Spooked, he ran

Merry Clickmas | Black Friday online sales hit record $7.4 billion

This year’s Black Friday was the biggest ever for online sales, as fewer people hit the stores and shoppers rang up $7.4 billion in transactions from their phones, computers and

UK attack now political football as Johnson, Corbyn spar

Britain’s political leaders sparred yesterday over who is responsible for the early release of a convicted extremist who launched a stabbing attack in central London that left two dead and

This Day in History | 1954 – US pledges to defend Nationalist China

US President Dwight D Eisenhower has announced the signing of a pact of mutual security with the Nationalist Chinese Government. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles concluded the agreement with Chinese

The Buzz | Spain seizes record haul of crystal meth for European market

Spanish police say they have made their biggest seizure of methamphetamine, taking 631 kilograms (1,400 pounds) in a raid near Barcelona. Police said in a statement Saturday that the drug, in

UN chief warns of ‘point of no return’ on climate change

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said yesterday that the world’s efforts to stop climate change have been “utterly inadequate” so far and there is a danger global warming could pass the

World Briefs

CHINA Guidelines that require Chinese telecom carriers to use facial recognition technology on buyers of SIM cards kicked in yesterday as the country cracks down on fraud. Companies should use

US | Navy cancels review for SEALs after firing of Navy secretary

The Navy canceled a peer-review process that would have determined if three Navy SEAL officers who supervised an enlisted SEAL convicted of posing with a dead teenage

Offbeat | Hikers answer plea to find wedding ring lost on mountaintop

A man’s quest to find his wedding ring on a 4,000-foot snow-covered mountain in New Hampshire has been completed by a couple of hikers — and a metal

World briefs

TRUMP-KIM North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump have signaled their affection for each other so regularly it might be easy to miss rising

The Buzz | Man City owners expand worldwide portfolio with Mumbai deal

Manchester City’s Abu Dhabi ownership has expanded its portfolio of worldwide soccer clubs to eight by buying a majority stake in Indian Super League team Mumbai City FC.

New film explores legacy of Boston’s Cocoanut Grove fire

Even though Boston’s Cocoanut Grove fire happened long before she was born, Michele Shapiro learned all about the disaster when she was a girl. Her

Iran supreme leader claims protests a US-backed ‘conspiracy’

Iran’s supreme leader yesterday claimed without evidence that recent protests across the Islamic Republic over government-set gasoline prices rising were part of a “conspiracy” involving the

Amnesty: Egypt uses prosecution branch to crush dissent

Egypt’s government is using a secretive judicial agency designed to fight terrorism to detain peaceful protesters, journalists and critics on trumped-up charges without trial, Amnesty International said

This Day in History | 1990 Tearful farewell from Iron Lady

Britain has a new prime minister for the first time in more than 11 years. Margaret Thatcher formally tendered her resignation to the Queen early this morning

World briefs

PHILIPPINES Police said yesterday they have arrested a suspected Chinese drug trafficker and seized one of the largest amounts of illegal drugs this year. More than 370

Offbeat | Man using magnet fishes WWI-era grenade from Michigan river

A magnet-wielding angler has fished a World War I-era grenade from a western Michigan river. WOOD-TV reports the angler found the explosive Tuesday after dangling the magnet from

Albania | Earthquake kills at least 16; rescuers hunt for survivors

Rescue crews used excavators to search for survivors trapped in toppled apartment buildings yesterday after a powerful pre-dawn earthquake in Albania killed at least 16 people and injured more than

Congo | Ebola responders on ‘lockdown’ after city’s unrest

Ebola responders are on lockdown in the eastern Congo city of Beni after angry residents attacked a United Nations base to protest repeated rebel assaults, the World Health Organization said.

Religion | Pope visits Jesuit Japan community that could have been his

Pope Francis wrapped up his visit to Japan in a very personal way yesterday, spending the morning with his Jesuit confreres in the community that would have been his own

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